Elijah Muhammad

CTL-E-0335 · Person · unspecified

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Georgia-born leader who moved the Nation of Islam's headquarters from Detroit to Chicago after 1934, the strongest Detroit-to-Chicago institutional transfer found. Leader of the Nation of Islam (1934-1975), headquartered in Chicago; traveled through Africa and the Middle East in 1959-1960.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from GLOBAL-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-GLOBAL-001:GBL-007; source research type(s): Person. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

Elijah Muhammad EBSCO EBSCO Research Starters
Black Religion and Black Power: The Nation of Islam's Internationalism
Black Religion and Black Power: The Nation of Islam's Internationalism (context); NOI newspaper tour account (primary source)
https://www.ajis.org/index.php/ajiss/article/download/2918/2618

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